i've read these are delayed right now. the am3+ motherboards are starting to appear online for sale, but there are no processors for them. how long will one have to wait for the good am3+ cpu's to be out?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_AMD_microprocessors "Zambezi" (32 nm, 8-core) 4 AMD Bulldozer modules Support new ISA: XOP, FMA4, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AES, CLMUL 2 MiB L2 cache shared per module 8 MiB L3 cache shared by all modules on a single die Support fusion of CMP and JMP instructions Advanced Dual-Channel DDR3 Memory Sub-System Native support for DDR3-1866 Higher memory level parallelism AM3+ socket [Not fully compatible with AM3 and incompatible with AM2+] Tentative release date Q3 2011[citation needed]